“The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.”

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Source: Modes and Morals (1920), Ch. 1

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